‘Dream’ for Sickest Patients Proves Elusive; The Checkup Test Cascade

• “[U]nlike other physicians he saw, I never made him feel like I was rushing to catch a train,” writes William M. Zinn, MD, MPH, reflecting on the proudest moments in his career as a primary care physician ~ Primarily Care (JAMA)

Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what’s going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman’s Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.